Mobile and Baldwin County News
At an October 2014 Grad Nation summit in Mobile, education and business leaders praised the city's college- and career-ready efforts as a model for improving graduation rates and workforce readiness.
A retired executive told the Rotary Club of Mobile in June 2008 that Forward Mobile, an unpublicized circle of about 40 civic and business leaders, had quietly shaped decades of…
Three prospects surfaced for seats on the Mobile County Board of School Commissioners, including a 25-year-old assistant pastor from Whistler and a superintendent who had just been replaced.
Saraland Superintendent Paul Sousa said negotiations to separate from the Mobile County school system had gone silent, with a state deadline days away and a new high school waiting on…
The Mobile County Education Association asked the school board president to release records on hundreds of thousands of dollars in no-bid contracts, questioning whether vendors who donated to the system…
A $5,000 contribution from the local car dealers' PAC boosted Democrat Andrew Davis days before the 2006 election, in a Mobile County school board race shadowed by Superintendent Harold Dodge's…
Lawyers across Mobile puzzled over why neither side struck ex-DA Chris Galanos from the impeachment jury. On Thursday the panel answered the question: it convicted School Commissioner David Thomas, with…
The Mobile County school system's proposed purchase of the old Kellogg, Brown & Root building drew sharp criticism from commercial real estate professionals, and a vigorous defense.